Railroad-tie.



No.-832,6 44. PATENTED OCT. 9, 1906.

0. P. [WALTER.

RAILROAD TIE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.17, 1906.

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RAILROAD-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

Application filed January 17,1906- Selial N0. 296,516-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES P. WALTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Railroad-Tie, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to railway-ties, and has for its object to improve the construction and increase the efficiency and utility of devices of this character.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are ing characters, is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the invention capaple of carrying the same into practical operation.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan view, of the improved tie with the rails in position thereon. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the improved tie.

The improved tie comprises metal side plates 11 of the usual length of a railwaytie, generally about eight feet, and with spaced recesses '8 9 in the upper edges to receive the tie-flanges of the rails represented at 12 13. Disposed between the plates 10 11 at the end portions are cushion-blocks 14 15, of wood or like material, secured by clampbolts 16 17, extending transversely through the plates and blocks, the blocks bearing beneath the rails andsecured thereto by the usual spikes 2O 21, and flush at the outer ends with the outer ends of the plates and with the inner ends s aced apart, whereby an open space 18 is le t between the inner ends of the blocks.

The blocks are formed with the portions between the rails and their inner ends thicker vertically than the outer portions, whereby shoulders 22 23 are formed to bear against denoted by like designatthe inner edges of the tie-flanges of the rails, and thus effectually prevent outward displacement of the blocks, while at the same time not preventing the withdrawal of the blocks inwardly. The lengths of the blocks 14 15 are less than the distance between the tie-flanges of one rail and the inner end of the block of the outer rail, so that by removing the clamp-bolts 16 or 17 and spikes or 21, as the case may be, the released block may be removed by simply drawing it inwardly into the space 18 and then withdrawingit from between the plates 10 11. Thus when a block becomes worn or broken it can be readily renewed without disturbing the body of the tie or the rails or the tamping or bedding except sufliciently to expose the clamp-bolts 16 or 17 and the small amount of ballast or paving above and within the space 18. The only labor required, therefore, is to remove a small amount of ballast or tamping and withdraw bolts 16 or 17 and the spikes 20 or 21 as heretofore noted.

The device is simple in construction, is strong and durable, and can be applied to any of the various railway constructions in use.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is I A railway-tie comprising side plates spaced apart and provided with rail-receiving recesses, cushion-blocks secured between said plates and bearing beneath the rails with the inner ends spaced apart and the portions between said inner ends and the rails thicker than the remaining portions, whereby shoulders' are formed on the blocks for bearing against the inner edges of the tieflanges of the rails to enable the cushion-blocks to be removed without disturbing the rails or plates.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature 1n the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES I. WALTER.

Witnesses:

' THos. M. SYKEs,

J. II. HORNING. 

